Step 43: Landing!

Step 44: Universal Joint to Push Tiller

Here's the innertube lashing from the tiller push stick to the rudder side-arm. A few wraps around the two sticks, and then a few wraps around those ...

I'd been sailing all night, cold in the big dark waves, bright stars above and bright phosphorescence in the water. I was sitting on the platform between my main hull and the outrigger, with my feet over the water. Suddenly something glowing big in the water under me. Three dolphins swimming right under my feet in formation.Three giant shapes all lit up with glow-specks like moving windows to the stars, flowing phosphorescent galaxies. They'd schooled up with my canoe! Then they shot off ahead in calligraphic curlicues, thowing glow-bursts off their tails, goofing off in the waves. They're clicking and chirping at me. How do I answer?

And how did I get here?

This is the story of my second trip to the California Channel Islands.At the end of the first trip I left my outrigger canoe stashed on an island and returned by ferry during a storm. A month and a half later I went back.

Step 1: Channel Islands

That line is an approximation of my outbound travel path.
I'll take the ferry from Ventura to Prisoner's Harbor in the middle of Santa Cruz Island.
Then I sail my canoe along the coast to Santa Rosa Island.

My canoe is an 18 foot long single outrigger sailing canoe similar to a Malibu Outrigger.

About This Instructable

Bio:Tim Anderson is the author of the "Heirloom Technology" column in Make Magazine. He is co-founder of www.zcorp.com, manufacturers of "3D Printer" output devices. His detailed drawings of traditional ...read more »